Heh. Well said. I would just tack “minus a shitload of taxes” onto the end of that sentence, but otherwise very well said.
We were set up by my cousin, whose wife had grown up with my future husband. In my circles, the majority of marriages come from blind dates, and 15/21 guys with whom I went on at least one date were set-ups rather than guys I’d met on my own.
Please ignore my other post where I am currently fighting with my wife.
My roommate and I had a “we want to meet girls” party. I knew lots of women who were married or otherwise not available and quite a few that I didn’t necessarily want to ask out but wouldn’t mind getting to know and/or give a chance. So we threw a party and told all of them that it is about us meeting girls to date. Does that seem creepy or off-putting? Maybe so but it worked.
One old girlfriend who was currently married brought five (5!) of her friends who she thought might be right for me. Like a mass blind date with no pressure.
I met my wife there. I also met a couple of other women that I dated too, for a short while, but I can’t juggle more than one girl at a time.
On a MUD (text based MMO for you kids) in 1994. Neither of us was looking for a relationship, and we started out arguing about the town she was living in. She’s smarter and less crazy than me, I cook, we both figure we’ve gotten the best of the deal. (I have)
That’s awesome.
My current SO and I were both dating different people when we met- one of my best friends from college found him on craigslist as a roommate. He says he liked me the moment he met me. Me, I heard the word “girlfriend” and I thought, too bad, guess THIS won’t go anywhere… A few months later, we had both broken up with our other SOs, began online dating, and each realized the other was so much better than what we’d been going to dinners with 
I think I met all my SO’s through the SCA or school…except one who was a friend of a friend (if he hadn’t been sooooo pretty I might not have dated him, we didn’t have much in common). I avoid drama by not dating drama queens.
(hey, stranger on a train, where in California are you?)